Since your back, can you do some Hernst hcs?? Much love! ❤️
Absolutely! Thanks for the ask <3
(these are all set set in canon-verse - for the musical, at least :) )
- After their first kiss, nothing really changes between them. Hanschen will walk Ernst home from school, they make out for a bit, and neither one tries to communicate with the other
- They keep going like that for a while - Ernst wants to get clarification on their relationship, (’so, are we boyfriends, or have I been misreading what we have?’) but he’s too scared of messing anything up
- Hanschen doesn’t want to talk about their relationship, not because he doesn’t want clarification, but because he knows that getting that clarification would mean actually having to open up to someone, and well, that’s Not Going To Happen
- Everything stays that way until the deaths of Moritz and Wendla
- After that, Hanschen starts to make more and more excuses to see Ernst
- In a surprising turn of events, Hanschen actually opens up to Ernst about why he’s been trying to see him so much lately
- (Hanschen says that, ‘for the first time in his life, he had been confronted with the idea of his own mortality, and the mortality of everyone around him. He has no idea what day will be the last for himself, or for his classmates. So he figures, there’s no time to be closed off or secretive. When he dies, he wants to have lived as good a life as he’s capable of living’)
- (They both know that what Hanschen really means is “I’m scared and lonely, and you take a bit of that fear and loneliness away”)
- This gives Ernst the strength to ask about their relationship, and where they stand
- For the first time in his life, Hanschen is at a complete loss of words
- Neither of them talk for about 2 solid minutes, and Ernst gets up to leave
- And then, Hanschen grabs his hand, the most gentle he’s ever been, looks Ernst dead in the eye, and says ‘I love you’ with the most amazing combination of sincereness, confidence, and softness
- Ernst sits back down, gives Hansi a chaste kiss, and says “And so you should” with such love in his eyes
- And for the first time in months, Hanschen smiles
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